How do you restore a deleted Bamboo plan? Is the plan backed up somewhere on the server?

[Erich Gruber]

yesterday I made a fat fingered mistake and deleted a bamboo plan.  To my surprise there were no easy solutions to restoring the plan after doing a quick google search.  In this case rebuilding the plan was pretty easy.  But it begs a bigger question.  How do you restore state in general on bamboo?  Do plans get serialized somewhere so they can be saved and restored later?  Thanks

[rsperafico · Accepted solution]

Hello Erich,

Thank you for your question.

Unfortunately the functionality you're requesting is not currently implemented in Bamboo. However, there is an improvement request that can be tracked here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-11453

I would suggest adding any comments to the issue above as well as voting on the issue to create its popularity and likelihood of being implemented in a future release.

For more information on how Atlassian implements new features and improvements please see the following document:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEV/Implementation+of+New+Features+Policy

If you find this answer useful, I would kindly ask you to accept it so the same will be visible to others who might be facing the same issue you have inquired.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Kind regards,
Rafael P. Sperafico
Atlassian Support

[rsperafico]

Hello Erich,

Thank you for your question.

Bamboo provides backup feature under "Bamboo administration >> System". Please refer to the following documentation for further information:

• Exporting data for backup

• Specifying a backup schedule

Please keep in mind that Bamboo built-in backup functionality is intended to serve rather as means for migration/upgrades rather than regular backup solution.

For customers with bigger instances we suggest using native DB and filesystem backup solutions.

If you find this answer useful, I would kindly ask you to accept it so the same will be visible to others who might be facing the same issue you have inquired.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Kind regards,
Rafael P. Sperafico
Atlassian Support

[Erich Gruber]

Thanks Rafael.  This would work, but really is quite 'heavy' for what I'm wanting to do.  We can't shut down our CI pipeline every night to do a complete system backup.  It also sounds like we'd have to do a complete restore as well to get something as simple as a plan restored.

What I really need is a way to quickly save a plan to file (xml or json for instance), then a wizard in the bamboo server to add/restore a plan from a file.  Is there such a feature?  If not, how do I request it? Thanks